Abstract: In this talk, Kristen Goessling weaves together stories from her engaged scholarship, research, and community organizing that reflect her approach to participatory action research as a practice of living inquiry. She presents a research praxis framework that explicitly centers issues of relationality, power, and participation. Through the sharing stories of struggles and emergent questions from her participatory research and practice, she invites participants into a conversation to explore the values and vision that underpin transformative critical scholarship.
Bio: Dr. Kristen Goessling is the Director of Participatory Research at the Penn State Center— Philadelphia and co-founder of the Philadelphia Participatory Research Collective. She has a Ph.D. in Human Development, Learning, and Culture from the University of British Columbia and a M.S. in Counseling Psychology from Lewis and Clark Graduate School. Dr. Goessling is an interdisciplinary engaged scholar whose work aligns to create spaces of belonging where people build meaningful relationships, construct knowledge, and take collective action toward liberatory social change. A committed scholar-activist, she uses critical participatory action research to investigate personal experiences of public policies with youth, students, and community members as co-researchers. Dr. Goessling’s scholarship spans the fields of participatory action research, organizing for education justice, social justice youth development, and community-university partnerships and coalitions.
This talk is supported by the NSF NRT program "Linguistic diversity across the lifespan: Transforming training to advance human-technology interaction.” NSF grant #2125865